MIAMI, FL. A state inspector visiting Brickell City Pizza at 75 SE 6th Street on August 25 found food not cooked to required minimum temperatures, toxic chemicals stored improperly near food, shellfish with no identification records, and employees failing to wash their hands — nine high-severity violations in a single inspection. The restaurant was not closed.
That count ties the worst single-inspection total in the facility's recorded history, matching a visit in July 2023 that also produced seven high-severity violations.
What Inspectors Found
The undercooking violation is the most direct threat to anyone who ate there. Salmonella in poultry survives below 165 degrees Fahrenheit. Cooking to temperature is the last reliable kill step before food reaches a plate, and the inspector documented that step was not being met.
The chemical violations compound the picture. Two separate high-severity citations covered toxic chemicals improperly stored or labeled and toxic substances improperly identified, stored, or used. That is not one careless placement of a cleaning product. That is a systemic failure in how the kitchen handles materials that can contaminate food directly.
Shellfish without identification records is its own category of risk. The inspector cited inadequate shell stock identification and records, meaning oysters, clams, or mussels on the menu could not be traced to a certified source. If a customer gets sick, there is no paper trail to find where the shellfish came from.
The inspector also cited employees for inadequate handwashing, food contact surfaces not properly cleaned or sanitized, food in poor condition or adulterated, time as a public health control not properly used, and no consumer advisory for raw or undercooked foods. Every one of those is a high-severity violation. The single intermediate violation covered inadequate ventilation and lighting.
What These Violations Mean
The handwashing failure is worth pausing on. It is not a paperwork problem. Hands carry pathogens from raw meat, from surfaces, from skin. When employees skip proper handwashing between tasks, those pathogens transfer directly to food that customers eat. Health investigators consistently identify improper handwashing as the leading behavioral factor in restaurant-linked illness outbreaks.
The time-as-public-health-control violation means food was being held in the temperature danger zone, between 41 and 135 degrees Fahrenheit, without a properly documented time limit to govern how long it could stay there. That zone is where bacteria multiply fastest. Temperature control and time control are the two primary tools a kitchen has to prevent bacterial growth, and the inspector found both compromised in the same visit.
The absence of a consumer advisory for raw or undercooked items is a specific legal requirement, not a suggestion. Customers who are pregnant, elderly, immunocompromised, or very young face serious risk from undercooked proteins and raw shellfish. Without the advisory posted on the menu, those customers have no warning.
Two chemical violations in a single inspection at Brickell City Pizza means the kitchen had multiple instances of toxic materials in proximity to food or without proper labeling. Chemical contamination from mislabeled or misplaced cleaning products does not always produce immediate symptoms, which makes it harder to trace after the fact.
The Longer Record
Brickell City Pizza: Recent Inspection History
Brickell City Pizza has 27 inspections on record and 197 total violations across that history. Not one of those inspections resulted in an emergency closure.
The pattern is not ambiguous. The facility has logged five or more high-severity violations in a single inspection on at least four separate occasions: seven in July 2023, five in February 2025, five in February 2026, and nine in August 2026. The violations are not clustered in one category. Across those inspections, the records show repeated citations for food handling, temperature control, and food contact surfaces.
The six months before this inspection showed the pattern holding. February 2026 produced five high-severity violations. March 2026 produced one. August 2026 produced nine.
After 27 inspections, 197 violations, and a single-visit total that matched the worst day in the restaurant's recorded history, Brickell City Pizza at 75 SE 6th Street in Miami remained open for business.
